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Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders Part 3/4 Happy Doom Day everyone. Now here's some Heretic! Carpator Diei posted:Those flashing lights in the Mausoleum are horrible on the eyes, even by Doom-engine-flashing-lights standards. And while the "bossfight" certainly makes an impression, it seems like the best and only solution is "Use Invulnerability + Tome of Power". This episode doesn't look terribly well-thought-out, all in all.
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Temin_Dump posted:Yeah, I'm not the biggest fan of episodes 4-5. 
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Dec 11, 2020 11:43
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I've been binging a bunch of the older videos, and I noticed you never got around to Keen 4-6. I think you mentioned them not being planned episodes, but I forget if there was any specific reason for it. Rewatching Keen 3's death montage brought a tear to my eye. 
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Dec 12, 2020 13:50
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Oh so [i]that[/s] explains all the commander keen hate. 4 is leaps and bounds better than 1-3, and arguably the best in the whole series. It's a high point of early 90s PC platformers, probably tied for first place in my memory with jazz jackrabbit.
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Dec 13, 2020 13:03
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I'm the lunatic who prefers Dreams over 5-6. Keen 4 is my darling and disturbing obsession.
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Dec 13, 2020 13:06
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It probably helps that Keen 4-6 have in-level saves, so you don't need to start from the beginning each time, which matters a lot when you die in one hit.
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Dec 13, 2020 15:10
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Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders Part 4/4 Re: Keen, I never said I wasn't going to play them all In fact.... 
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Dec 14, 2020 01:58
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Ooh, a pistol start on 4 levels in a row. Looks like for some reason, the first 3 of those levels only featured Heretic E1 monsters, not any of the ones from E2 or E3 (not counting the Maulotaur.)
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Dec 14, 2020 06:17
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Jeez, by now the only thing I like about Heretic is the textures. What a slog that game has been, and I remember being so excited when you started playing it :/
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Dec 14, 2020 12:43
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Haven't noticed the epilogues' aversion to capitalisation before now, eurgh. E: Oh, it's almost all ingame text, wow.
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Dec 14, 2020 12:57
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i mean, heretic is right there, in the title but yeah there's next to no capitalisation in heretic. as a kid i never noticed, but when i went back later i was thrown off as early as the main menu lmao
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Dec 14, 2020 13:07
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inscrutable horse posted:Jeez, by now the only thing I like about Heretic is the textures. What a slog that game has been, and I remember being so excited when you started playing it :/ Though the Probably also worth mentioning that a Heretic WAD won one of this year's Cacowards: The Faithless Trilogy by Jimmy Paddock. Carpator Diei fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Dec 14, 2020 |
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Dec 14, 2020 15:37
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The main thing I notice about Heretic (not having played it myself) is just how many monsters there are. And they all take more hits than you'd think they should. It looks exhausting. The levels also seem unnecessarily large and mazey, but might not be too bad if it weren't for how crowded they are. I feel like a bit of fiddling with HHE (DeHackEd for Heretic) and a level editor could make a good game out of it, but as it is it just doesn't seem fun.
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Dec 14, 2020 16:27
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BONUS CONTENT!!! Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders Part 5/4 There were also warp-only maps 
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Dec 17, 2020 18:13
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Temin_Dump posted:BONUS CONTENT!!! Is the game audio a little ahead of the video? Doesn't sound like the commentary is ahead, just the game audio.
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Dec 17, 2020 20:37
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Oh weird. It sounded fine before rendering. I wonder what happened?
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Dec 17, 2020 20:44
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Temin_Dump posted:Oh weird. It sounded fine before rendering. I wonder what happened? Sounds like it just on the first map though.
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Dec 17, 2020 21:00
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Technowolf posted:Sounds like it just on the first map though. Now who did myhouse.wad better, Raven Software or Sandy Petersen in Suburbs?
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Dec 17, 2020 21:46
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Merry Keensmas everyone! Commadner Keen 4 Part 1/2
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Dec 24, 2020 21:17
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Temin_Dump posted:Merry Keensmas everyone! Welcome back Coffee *clap clap* *clapclapclap*
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Dec 25, 2020 02:13
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This was my Mario, this was my Sonic, and I owned both their systems. Keen 4 blew them out of the sky, as it had that perfect feeling of exploration I prefer in my platformers. The Bean-with-Bacon Megarocket does have a purpose, as it spawns a blaster behind the model if you're out of ammo. E: Man, you're really pulling those impossible pogo jumps. THE BAR fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Dec 26, 2020 |
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Dec 26, 2020 00:12
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I would be hard pressed to name my absolute favorite game ever, but Keen 4 is a very strong contender.
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Dec 26, 2020 00:53
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Temin_Dump posted:Merry Keensmas everyone!
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Dec 26, 2020 01:19
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I played Keen 4 a lot. - You can save mid-level, which really helps smooth out the difficulty. - Poison slugs kill you on touch unless stunned. - The rainwater on the planet has life-giving properties. Collect 100 drops (or a bottle) and get an extra life. - I hope that you did the secret level in Keen 4, although it is a pain in the butt to unlock and to complete.
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Dec 26, 2020 02:57
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Carpator Diei posted:According to Wikipedia, this was released exactly one year after the first three Keen episodes; and Doom followed only two years later. The speed of technological advancement in game design at the time must've really been amazing. I think the biggest upgrade is being able to hang on to and climb ledges.
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Dec 26, 2020 12:05
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Being able to shoot up and down comes in super handy, too.
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Dec 26, 2020 12:26
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- There's some items at the very top of the rocket level, unreachable without cheats. - There's a secret area with multiple extra lives and a secret exit above the acid pools in the first level. - You can ride around on the red bouncy balls. Standing on the edge lets you control where it goes. This helps with some tricky jumps. - There's a cheat that will mess up your graphics in a way that helps you find secrets.
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Dec 26, 2020 20:32
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Commander Keen 4 Part 2/2 Now you all get to see how badly I messed up in this game Also, glad you all have fond memories of Keen 4. It's probably my favorite of them all (Even if I'm not terribly great at it). Looks like there's a bunch of stuff in Keen 4 I'll have to add to my Stuff I Missed video.
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Dec 26, 2020 22:41
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turol posted:- There's some items at the very top of the rocket level, unreachable without cheats. There's also a huge bit in hillville made up of invisible platforms in the sky, which are how you get to those thrusters we saw at the end of the level. If you stand still for a while you'll see them glint every few seconds. Yeah, I think the way that the levels feel really big and open gives the game a really nice sense of exploration rather than just being a bunch of hurdles between the start and the exit. Technically, weren't a lot of PC programmers having tons of trouble figuring out how to get the screen to scroll smoothly around the time that Keen 4 came out? Most other PC platformers I can think of from that era were comparatively jerky. The game also looks amazing considering it's EGA - only 16 colours, right?
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You mentioned Strifetoons, and my mind immediately sprang for this work of art: https://www.angelfire.com/emo/shadowlands/ No kidding, it has some genuine laughs in it.  E: The red land whale things steal stuff, and it racks up if you don't stop them in time. Also yeah, no ledge grabbing in Dreams, which never feels good after playing this.
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- Some levels have little invisible platforms, which are only given away by a little glint which appears every so often. Miragia and Sand Yego have some as well as Hillville. - Yah, I wanted you to show off the most difficult level in the game to guard... the janitor. - The "land dolphins" aren't listed in the manual, but they're "Treasure Eaters". They teleport around and consume treasure in the level. They only appear in that one level, too. If you practice a special jump from the start of the level, you can manage to stun the first one before it eats those two Lifewater bottles, and you can claim them for yourself. - Keen Dreams did not have ledge grabbing, I think. I think you could toss the Flower Powers up or down, though, - The text on the oracle reads "Acme Oracle". Yes, I have the Standard Galactic Alphabet memorized. - That's a lot of deaths.
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There's an idle animation where Keen sits down and reads a book if you don't touch the controls for a while. Try letting it play out while standing on a moon in the moon temple.
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Hey, here's a new game to start of the new year! Strife: Quest for the Sigil Part 1/??? Happy new year, everyone!
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Temin_Dump posted:Hey, here's a new game to start of the new year! Oh man thanks for this, Strife sounds magical, esp. that voice acting 
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Jan 5, 2021 05:46
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Strife is criminally underrated and not nearly talked enough about. It just has so much gosh darn style to it.
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Jan 5, 2021 12:36
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Oh YESSSSS!!! Strife is the god-drat bomb, and it holds up so fuckin' well! When it was released on GOG, I was absolutely over the moon; before that, I was only able to find  versions of it, and they always slashed the voice-overs. It was still a good game, but boy did it feel so much emptier.
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Jan 5, 2021 15:00
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This game is amazing. And I don't think I've ever even heard of it before. I feel like it must have suffered for coming out after Duke Nukem 3D and with Quake just around the corner. Bad timing.
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Jan 5, 2021 15:02
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Echoing the positive reactions, Strife was just so far ahead of its time.
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Strife Part 2/??? Glad to see you all excited for Strife! It's such a unique game, especially for the Doom engine, and I'm glad we finally made it here 
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